Bullets.

In my ongoing Business card project, the customer wants bulleted info
on the card. Checking the manuals and attempting to produce the
bulleted paragraph, I've been unsuccessful. Need guidance and a
step-by-step procedure. As in PgS for a dummy.

Harry

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On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Harry Runge wrote:
> In my ongoing Business card project, the customer wants bulleted info
>; on the card. Checking the manuals and attempting to produce the
> bulleted paragraph, I've been unsuccessful. Need guidance and a
> step-by-step procedure. As in PgS for a dummy.

I'm not entirely sure what you've tried/what hasn't worked so this may be off
base...

I always do this sort of thing in styles rather than directly applying the
formatting. With that in mind:

1. Edit paragraph style
2. Click the "Paragraph" button
3. In the "Type" section select "Bulleted" as the type
4. If desired change the font for the bullet using the "Font" menu
5. Use the "Character" field to specify the bullet character to use (there is
a popup as well to select an arbitrary character from the font)
6. Click the "OK" button to return to the style dialog
7. Click the "OK" button to return to the document

I don't often use bullets, but I do on occassion which leads me to:

1. Business card -- I had issues with the bullets printing/printing correctly.
Don't remember any details at the moment

2. Regular document -- most recently I created some documentation that made
extensive use of bullets. There were *definitely* issues with printing/saving
as PDF. Don't remember further details at the moment.

My recollection is that in both of those cases I was able to get the desired
bullet character to not only show on screen but print and be preserved in the
PDF (I *think* one of the bug fixes in 5.0.4.3 is related but I don't
remember for sure).

Tim Doty

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Harry:

> ...the customer wants bulleted info
> on the card.... Need guidance and a
> step-by-step procedure. As in PgS for a dummy.
>

Don't we all?

* Select the paragraph.
* Open Paragraph Styles.
* Click the Paragraph button.
* Select Type | "Bulleted."
* Choose a font from the drop-down list. With bullets, you can
usually use the text font you're using for the paragraph.
* Click the double-head arrow next to "Character" and select the
bullet you want. The bullet may not necessarily show in the
associated box. For some reason, sometimes you'll get a generic
character in that box.
* If you want the text to align evenly after the bullet, you'll need
to set appropriate values in the Indent and First Paragraph
dialogs---a plus value in the former, an identical negative value
in the latter. The Outdent check box doesn't seem to do anything
here. Also this won't work if you're wrapping along the right side
of a graphic because evidently PageStream doesn't account for the
graphic in its calculations. It always calculates in relation to
the left margin of the text box.
* Select OK, OK.
* Done.

Hope this helps.

HB

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Tim Doty wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Harry Runge wrote:
>
>>; In my ongoing Business card project, the customer wants bulleted info
>;> on the card. Checking the manuals and attempting to produce the
>> bulleted paragraph, I've been unsuccessful. Need guidance and a
>> step-by-step procedure. As in PgS for a dummy.
>>
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you've tried/what hasn't worked so this may be off
> base...
>
> I always do this sort of thing in styles rather than directly applying the
> formatting. With that in mind:
>
> 1. Edit paragraph style
> 2. Click the "Paragraph" button
> 3. In the "Type" section select "Bulleted" as the type
>; 4. If desired change the font for the bullet using the "Font" menu
>; 5. Use the "Character" field to specify the bullet character to use (there is
> a popup as well to select an arbitrary character from the font)
> 6. Click the "OK" button to return to the style dialog
> 7. Click the "OK" button to return to the document
>
>; I don't often use bullets, but I do on occassion which leads me to:
>
> 1. Business card -- I had issues with the bullets printing/printing correctly.
> Don't remember any details at the moment
>
> 2. Regular document -- most recently I created some documentation that made
> extensive use of bullets. There were *definitely* issues with printing/saving
> as PDF. Don't remember further details at the moment.
>
> My recollection is that in both of those cases I was able to get the desired
> bullet character to not only show on screen but print and be preserved in the
> PDF (I *think* one of the bug fixes in 5.0.4.3 is related but I don't
> remember for sure).
>
>
Tim,

I think I've tried the above sequence but will give it go as you have
outlined.

Harry

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Henry G Belot wrote:
> Harry:
>
>
>>; ...the customer wants bulleted info
>>; on the card.... Need guidance and a
>>; step-by-step procedure. As in PgS for a dummy.
>>
>>;
>
> Don't we all?
>;
> * Select the paragraph.
> * Open Paragraph Styles.
> * Click the Paragraph button.
> * Select Type | "Bulleted."
> * Choose a font from the drop-down list. With bullets, you can
> usually use the text font you're using for the paragraph.
> * Click the double-head arrow next to "Character" and select the
> bullet you want. The bullet may not necessarily show in the
> associated box. For some reason, sometimes you'll get a generic
> character in that box.
>; * If you want the text to align evenly after the bullet, you'll need
>; to set appropriate values in the Indent and First Paragraph
> dialogs---a plus value in the former, an identical negative value
> in the latter. The Outdent check box doesn't seem to do anything
> here. Also this won't work if you're wrapping along the right side
>; of a graphic because evidently PageStream doesn't account for the
> graphic in its calculations. It always calculates in relation to
> the left margin of the text box.
>; * Select OK, OK.
> * Done.
>
I will work it, HB, and report back. I think from you and Tim have
outlined I may be missing the obvious somewhere.

Harry

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